Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Downloading/Extracting WSP (Solution) from SharePoint

Background

Last week I was working on a SharePoint project where I
had to get all the wsp’s deployed in the farm and I was not able to find few .wsp
files anywhere in the Central Administration server. In the Central
Administration Solution Properties screen, there is an option to Retract the solution but no option to Download the solution

Solution

I am not sure if there is a way to do this using stsadm. But definitely we can do this
using SharePoint PowerShell.To run this command, you need to be a member of the
Farm Administrators group and have permission to the configuration database